Key words Flashcards
Transgressive criminology
(By Rob White)
Or how he calls it ‘proper criminology
Proper criminology is about action which is deviant or harmful and which does not necessarily break the law.
It is a broader definition that can include corporate crime, green crime and state crime
Alienation
Feeling of disconnectedness, lack of interpersonal value and importance.
Critical criminology
Critical criminology is a way of looking at crime and deviance as something not inherently human, but shaped by social and economic conditions and power relations
Protest
Protest is an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid a certain outcome.
Relativity
Absence of standards of absolute and universal application.
Profiling
To categorise psychological and behavioural characteristics to asses or make predictions.
Can link to Typifications